Tambourine creates new digital platform for Ted Turner's four New Mexico conservation properties spanning one million acres of preserved wilderness.
Analysis of 1,520 hotel survey campaigns shows that shorter subject lines and embedded questions can boost response rates from 20% to 23%.
Lodging Interactive and CoMMingle offer $1,500 charity donation to the winning hotel's chosen local cause for best Christmas tree display.
GCSTIMES promotes their plant-fiber eco slippers as sustainable in-room amenities that enhance guest comfort during the busy Christmas travel period.
Tambourine promotes cost savings through platform consolidation, offering no-fee booking engines, built-in personalization, and accessibility protection to reduce third-party vendor expenses.
Dolores Castillo shares insights from launching JW Marriott and Hilton properties, emphasizing market clarity, wellbeing-focused guest expectations, and balancing data with relationships in commercial strategy.
The piece promotes custom holiday-themed key cards that double as decorative keepsakes, designed to enhance guest check-in experiences during the festive season.
Cloudbeds' inaugural collection highlights 100 independent properties worldwide, with public voting open through December 19 for the People's Choice winner.
Lodging Interactive's new platform combines AI-optimized content with integrated storytelling to drive direct bookings and improve hotel discoverability.
The wooden fridge magnet key card features destination landmarks to create social media moments and serve as lasting souvenirs.
GCSTIMES offers free custom theme proposals and design consultations to help hotels create cohesive brand experiences through sustainable amenities.
SmartRyde, a Japanese company and one of the leading global players in pre-booked airport transfer services, is pleased to announce its strategic integration as a provider through Amadeus, a leading travel technology company. Through this collaboration, SmartRyde’s extensive network of airport transfer solutions will soon be available this month directly through Amadeus Transfers, enabling travel sellers worldwide to offer seamless ground transportation as part of their travel itineraries.
This article is the first installment in The Implementation Playbook, a new Shiji Insights series examining the realities of hotel PMS implementations. Across five parts, the series will explore the leadership behaviors, operational structures, and on‑property practices that determine whether a technology rollout succeeds or struggles. This first article focuses on the foundational mistakes hotel groups commonly make, and what leaders can do to avoid them.
Hotel technology is entering a new phase. Future locking systems are moving card-free, powered by BLE, NFC, and cloud-managed mobile keys. At the same time, digitalisation is accelerating across every touchpoint—from cloud PMS platforms to automation and AI-supported operations.
Lure Agency, along with hospitality sales trainer Celeste Berke Knisely, today announced the launch of Sales on Tap, a modern social-selling and visibility-building community created for hotel group sales professionals.
Mews, the leading operating system for hotels, has launched Zero Dollar Authorization, a new feature that helps protect revenue and ensure smoother payments. The feature enables hotels to instantly verify a guest’s card at booking without charging it, reducing failed payments, chargebacks, and lost revenue from no-shows.
Duetto, the industry’s leading provider of revenue and profit software, and Cloudbeds, the intelligent unified platform powering hotel growth, have released their first-ever Hotel Market Pulse report, providing performance and profitability analysis for hoteliers worldwide, based on the data managed by both companies.
Saudi Arabia-based Adeera has signed a new agreement to use transformative travel technology, Amadeus Digital Media. Through advanced omni-channel advertising strategies, Adeera will be able to better reach travelers at the moments they are most likely to book, across paid search, display, and social media.
Travel Media Group is pleased to announce that they have surpassed $1 million in social media ad spend invested on behalf of their hotel partners. As a trusted provider of exclusive hospitality marketing services, this achievement underscores the company’s ongoing commitment to helping hotels gain visibility, drive bookings, and remain competitive in a quickly evolving digital landscape.
In the world of luxury hospitality leadership, few professionals embody the balance of global perspective and local authenticity as well as Andreas Magnus, General Manager of Kempinski Palace Engelberg.